Olivia Reingold

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Escape from New York: Business Leaders Say They’ll Flee if Mamdani Wins‘It only takes a handful of successful people to leave to decimate the city’s tax base,’ Bill Ackman told The Free Press. After decades of running Gristedes Supermarkets, the iconic Manhattan-based grocery chain, billionaire John Catsimatidis says one thing could cause him to throw in the towel: if 33-year-old socialist Zohran Mamdani becomes the next mayor of New York City.

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NEW YORK, NY — As Zohran Mamdani, the 33-year-old candidate for mayor of New York City, took selfies with adoring fans on a recent Sunday in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, a heckler in a MAGA hat began shouting with a megaphone only a few feet away. “You’re a socialist,” the man cried out to the crowd. “If you hate America, you should leave.”Normally, that label—the s-word—might be considered a slur, or at least a political liability. But not to this crowd.

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The Democratic Socialists of America Don’t Know If They Should Condemn MurderA split inside the far-left group over the shootings of Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky has spilled into New York’s mayoral race. Last Wednesday, a 31-year-old progressive activist allegedly shot and killed two employees of the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C., in cold blood. As one of them, Sarah Milgrim, a 26-year-old Jew from Kansas, tried to crawl away, the gunman continued shooting at her.

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Could Ranked-Choice Voting Make a Socialist New York City’s Mayor? Advocates claimed ranked-choice voting would move politics ‘to the center.’ Now it might help elect the most radical mayor in New York City’s history. A new poll out this week shows what many have long suspected: The New York mayor’s race is closer than it seems.

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The Leftists Celebrating Joe Biden’s Cancer‘He ought to seek out treatment in a cancer ward in Gaza,’ one person told The Free Press. Lily Hi'ilani Okimura, a 27-year-old Hawaii native, told me she found out about former president Joe Biden’s cancer diagnosis like everyone else her age: through TikTok. The news was enough to make her pause—but not because she cared. “I—pardon my French—did not give a fuck,” she said.